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Talent: DAN McLEAN
Station: CFOX Montreal
Date: July 11, 1976
Time: 7:23

(Logo courtesy Marc Denis)

What's in a name? In the case of Dan O'Neil/McLean, a good story.

Dan O'Neil first came to our attention in 1967, when he spent the year doing middays at CKFH. In a time when radio jobs were plentiful and demand for a jock of O'Neil's calibre high, he also worked in such markets as Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Denver and Windsor-Detroit. O'Neil had several stops in Central New York, and also jocked at four Montreal stations: CJAD, CJFM, CKGM and CFOX.

It was upon arriving at CFOX in 1975 that Dan O'Neil became Dan McLean. There was already an Andy Neil and an Andy K. on board at CFOX, so Dan decided to use another name to avoid confusion. He chose McLean, the name of his former PD at CKGM.

CFOX was on its last legs as a Top 40 station by the mid-'70s. Founded by Gord Sinclair, Jr., in 1960, the CFOX call-letters were in Montréal (Pointe-Claire) from 1960 to 1977 (they are now used by a Vancouver station).

Sinclair converted CFOX from country music to Top 40 in 1965. What followed was a golden era at 1470-CFOX, with great talents like Dean Hagopian, Bob Baker (a.k.a. Duke Roberts), Ralph Lockwood, Charles P. Rodney Chandler, Roger Scott, Bob Gibbons, "Big Daddy" Bob Ancell and many more. The Top 40 years ended at CFOX in 1977 when the station switched to news as part of the now-defunct CKO network.

Enjoy Dan McLean on 1470-CFOX here.

(The Marc Denis Collection)

(1470 CFOX Dan McLean July 11, 1976 aircheck reproduced and posted here through permission by marcdenis.com (Marc Denis' CKGM Super 70s Tribute Page / 1470 CFOX Montreal Radio Archive, c/o J. Geleick). This aircheck cannot be duplicated or distributed without prior written permission and consent by the proprietor(s)*)

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